The Dresden Dolls have posted a video for their new single, “Backstabber” on YouTube. The clip was shot/directed and edited by Michael Pope. Check it out below!

Bringing together tips and interviews from Keyboard magazine, Francis Preve’s “The Remixer’s Bible” is a highly informative guide to electronic music production that should be of interest to pros and novices alike. Case studies are used extensively to provide real-world examples of various production techniques, and the explanations are always clear and easy to understand. The book covers a wide range of topics, including sound design, software, theory, and sampling legal issues. At 248 pages, the book is by no means comprehensive, but it presents a nice overview and many nuggets of useful information. While the art of remixing is what ties the book together, much of the material would also be of interest to those looking to learn more about digital recording/production in general. “The Remixers Bible” also includes a CD-Rom of demo software and sample session files from such artists as Coldcut and Meat Beat Manifesto.


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Tanya Donelly, formerly of Throwing Muses, Belly, and The Breeders, is back with a new CD, and it was recorded in a pretty unique way. On her official website, Tanya posted this about the process of making “THIS HUNGRY LIFE” :

“This album was recorded during a heat wave in front of a live, patient audience over two nights in Bellows Falls, VT at the Windham, a hotel closed since the 80s except for its small club. The idea was more ‘album recorded live’ than ‘live album’; there were stops and starts, multiple takes, endless tunings, lots of sweating and a little swearing. Every couple of songs, the whole roomful of us would pour out onto the street to let our clothes dry and to breathe some new air. We were all pretty familiar by the end of the weekend. Recording can be tedious and shows nerve-wracking; this was neither. It was a blast, and I loved every second.”

“THIS HUNGRY LIFE” is out now on Eleven Thirty Records. If you order it directly from tanyadonelly.com, it comes autographed!

A random note about Tanya Donelly – back in the mid 90’s I interviewed her for Boston Rock Magazine about the then-new project Belly. She’d said that one of their first shows was at NY’s The Limelight, ‘a bit odd because it is a GOTH club.’ (well it wasn’t totally a goth club, but they certainly did attract that crowd on particular nights.) Between the time the article left my hands and publication someone (perhaps with the aid of spell check?) accidentally changed the work ‘goth’ to ‘GOLF’! This of course completely changed the meaning and made me seem a bit stupid, but I thought it was kind of funny. I swear my original manuscript said ‘goth’!

Click here to visit the Tanya Donelly website.
Click here to visit the Eleven Thirty Records website.

Yesterday I got to attend Sonic The Hedgehog’s 15th birthday celebration in NY (part of the annual Digital Life consumer electronics show.) Sonic had a huge cake, which he generously shared with industry and media attendees. In recent years, a few people have asked if I got the name “Chaos Control’ from the games, as the term is used in them to describe powers related to the “Chaos Emeralds.” However, this is not the case, The hedgehog was a decade old when ‘Chaos Control’ was introduced (in the game “Sonic Advance 2.”)